Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-05-25
ADDITIONAL NEWS.

1HE Scribncr and Oakdale branch OF
the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri VAL
lsy railway has completed its track through
Newman Grove, Neb., and in the course
Of two or three weeks will be into Oak
dA5o on the main line west of Norfolk,
and as soon as completed to that point reg.
ular trains will be put on.
X SENATOR VAN WICK has written q
lsttsr to the Secretary Of the Interior ask
Ing that the appointment Of appraisers of
abandoned military reservations in Ne
bs1pka and Colorado, authorized under the
aoEof 1854 to be sold, be delayed until
th4next meeting Of congress. He states
thG when congress last adjourned and
aM1endment to this act was upon the calen :
da& having the unanimous indorsement of
thecommittee on public lands to home
stSAders instead Of by sale to possible syn-
diontes under the present law.
THE eleven Democrats and two Repub-
lictns indicted for election frauds by the
fedpral grand jury at Indianapolis have,
wiz one exception, given bail.
xAToR VAN WICK. Mrs. Van wyck
and their little daughter have left WASH
inse0n for their home in Nebraska.
THE elite society of Glendonville, Pa,
il u broke up over the elopement Of Ida,
the daughter of james Barclay Werner,
the Dldest and wealthiest citizen in the
town, with Bill Thompson, an uncouth
negro employed by Werner as a hosller.
IdAsW Werner is about 30 and beautiful and
acComplished. Thompson is thirty four
andmarried, but childless. He is fairly
educated and good talker. She took the
vel bound train. Thus far her parents
hAx1 obtained no trace of her. In letter
lar NJ Idsehe says that she was thorough
/ " nsasno6d, and NO one has had the
hardihood to deny the statement.
A MAN named Hoover, who has been
going around the country urging negroes
to band together to demand higher wages,
WAS dangerously shot at Warrentown, GA.
1t is believed that Hoover has been swind-
ling the negroes and was n victim Of their
wrath. He claims to be Knight of Labor.
SEVERAL towns and villages In the east
eru part of South Carolina are suffering
from . veritable plague of caterpillars.
Trees, bushes and shrubbery are loaded
down and fences and houses covered with
them. The insects are of different kind
from those which usually appear at this
time OF the year, being much larger and
more voracious, and they are doing great
damage to trees and shrubbery. The peo-
pie are making diligent efforts to destroy
the pests by means of torches and other
agencies, but their efforts SO far seem to
be in vain. The rails for several miles on
the trestle of the Atlantic Coast Line rail-
- t1rH d. L.
thiek!y covered with caterp:llars asl to inn
pede the progress of trains, it being neces-
sary for the train men to sweep them of
the rails with broOms.
YELLOW fever has appeared in Key
West, Florida, man named Baker being
Ill with sporadic form of the disease.
PENDING the issue of the cabinet crisis
at Paris, official opinion in Berlin main
tains circumspect silence. The North
German Gazette refrains from giving more
than meager dispatches concerning the de.
velopments in France. A frank expression
Of official hopes would have the effect of
Strengthening Gen. Boulanger's party and
weakening the opportunists, who are work.
ing to oust him. The Government receives
full advices respecting every phase of the
ministry negotiations at Elysee. The
latest dispatches indicate that Boulanger's
position is unshsken, and that q Rouvier-
De Frcycinet Ministry is likely to be
formed, which will adopt Boulanger's plan
to attack Germany. Whatever may be the
character Of the next French Ministry, the
crisis has strengthed the war party in Ger
many and the war spirit Of the people.
DISTRICT JUDGE JOHN N. ROGERS, OF
Davenport, Iowa, is dead.